happy holidays

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wishing everyone happy holidays

+

a splendid new year

[I am going to spend some quality time with my little family]

xxx

drown...

Overflow gently — don’t drown.

— Albert Camus, Notebooks (1935-1951)

W contributor Tim Walker's short film, inspired by his story "Far, Far From Land

image taken from video

a must see on youtube

storm...

"When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. 

That’s what this storm’s all about."

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Nikolay Biryukov

less convinced...

Staying very still in the darkness, I became less and less convinced of the fact that I actually existed.

— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Northern Women in Chanel by Peter Farago and Ingela Klemetz

quietness...

The snow has quietness in it; no songs,

no smells, no shouts or traffic.

When I speak

my own voice shocks me.

—Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones
image by me

forever...

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…

I could walk through my garden forever. 

-Alfred Tennyson

morgan chelf

shipwrecks...

Some people know sadness

the way the sea knows shipwrecks.

— Amelia M. Garcia

Boris Ovini

love me long...

Aime-moi moins, mais aime-moi longtemps

—"Les chansons d’amour" 

(Love me less but love me long)
sounds so much better in french 
 Paolo Roversi Styled by Edward Enninful

less...

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being,

then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

— Abraham Maslow

Editorial detail of Guinevere van Seenus in ‘Dreaming of Another World’ by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia March 2011

hell….

If I'm right,’ she said, ‘and you have all sorts of juicy information in that dossier of yours, you’ll know that I am an abnormally forgiving person, even of those who have used me and hurt me more than one person deserves to be hurt. But right this second, I am looking forward to the day you rot in hell.” 
― Ally Blake, Getting Red-Hot with the Rogue

Gisele Bündchen by Mert & Marcus for POP #8 Spring/Summer 2004

What you did….

I've learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

— Maya Angelou

s-sur/real | valerija kelava by julia hetta for double magazine #26

time...

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

-Auguste Rodin

bath house, by deborah turbeville for vogue us 1975

one hell of a year….

"And it has been one hell of a year.

I have worn the seasons under my sleeves, on my tights, running down my cheeks.

This is what surviving looks like, my dear."

-Michelle K., It Has Been One Hell of a Year 

Sibylle Bergemann

flower….

Write her a letter, send her a flower, love only gets old if you let it.

— William Chapman
Jared Fowler

When...

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

— Ernest Hemingway

Gordon Parks for Life Magazine April 1961

inside us...

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

-Anthony Marra

"Again For Tomorrow". Antonina Vasylchenko by Jamie Hawkesworth for Garage magazine

x

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

-Nelson Mandela

Adrien Steirn

what an amazing, inspiration beautiful soul...

places….

The woman who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd.

The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been.

— Albert Einstein

Man Ray — Terrain vague, 1929

a wordless song...

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

— Khalil Gibran
The Witch’s Sabbath | Grey #5, photographed by Alessio Bolzoni

on the right track...

You know you are on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back.

-unknown

purple fashion fall winter 1998/99 photographed by mark borthwick

intuition...

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover…
— Henri Poincare 
Photographed by Astrid Munoz for Harper’s Bazaar Russia July 2010